{"id":1,"date":"2013-10-16T17:28:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T17:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ec2-107-22-90-181.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2019-02-28T12:41:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T20:41:07","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-science\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the Mozilla Science Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Cross posted from kaythaney.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

I\u2019m thrilled to announce that I\u2019ve joined Mozilla<\/a> to build and direct their new open science initiative \u2013 the Mozilla Science Lab<\/strong>. The project is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m excited to be returning to my open roots, as well as continuing to push the boundaries of what \u201cdigital research\u201d can and should look like, and further explore how we can make the web work for science.<\/p>\n

Why Mozilla?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Openness, empowerment and disruption are baked into Mozilla\u2019s DNA<\/a>. Their belief in the power of the open web and drive to explore new ways the technology can transform is inspiring. They truly believe that we all should be able to innovate in the digital world, regardless of your level of technical proficiency \u2013 that we should be able to be more than passive consumers. This is incredibly important for science, especially as we grapple with a daunting skills gap at the university level that is, in many cases, disincentivising researchers to participate, to innovate, or even in some cases, continue to do science.<\/p>\n

Mozilla cares deeply about \u201cdigital literacy\u201d<\/a>, and it\u2019s time we explore what that means for science, especially given discussion about the \u201cskills gap\u201d in funding circles and at the policy level. I started to unpack this a bit back in January in a piece on Radar<\/a> \u2013 teasing out some of the core competencies I think we\u2019re neglecting in basic science education. We\u2019ll be discussing that more here on the blog in the coming weeks, as well.<\/p>\n

The first member of my team is Greg Wilson<\/a>, founder of Software Carpentry<\/a>, a program that teaches basic computational literacy to researchers to help them be more productive. I\u2019ve long admired Greg\u2019s work in this space, in providing an entry point for students to learn things like version control, data management, basic scripting. In the last year alone, they\u2019ve run over 70 events for more than 2,200 attendees \u2013 all led by volunteers \u2013 and are on track to double both numbers in the coming twelve months. More importantly, Software Carpentry is our first step in exploring what \u201cdigital literacy\u201d ought to be for researchers and what they need to know to actually do it.<\/p>\n

We also want to find ways of supporting and innovating with the research community \u2013 building bridges between projects, running experiments of our own, and building community. We have an initial idea of where to start, but want to start an open dialogue to figure out together how to best do that, and where we can be of most value.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be writing more here on the blog in the coming months as we ramp up development of the program (hint: we have some cool stuff planned. \";)\" ). Stay tuned for more in the coming weeks about how you can get involved. You can also check out our wireframe here at wiki.mozilla.org\/ScienceLab<\/a> or follow us @MozillaScience<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Cross posted from kaythaney.com) I\u2019m thrilled to announce that I\u2019ve joined Mozilla to build and direct their new open science initiative \u2013 the Mozilla Science Lab. The project is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. I\u2019m excited to be … Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290376],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}